Hed noun pileup of the morning
American hed dialect just doesn't do this, and somehow we seem the worse for it:
Texting death crash peer jailed
Texting death crash peer jailed
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posted by fev at 8:01 AM
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
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3 Comments:
Found your blog through Language Log. I once saw the amazing phrase "Murder plot husband trial verdict":
http://flickr.com/photos/beestar/256553435/
Wouldn't hyphens help make sense of some of these? Do they not use them that much over there?
Anonymous: Hyphens?! At this rate, we're gonna need parentheses... ;)
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